HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Citizens News, 1966-01-28, Page 6ZURICH CITIZENS NEWS
THURSDAY, JANUARY 2$, 1966
Woman's Place in Agriculture
(Continued from. Last Week)
houses, all the same—perhaps
the front door was painted a
different colour and some of
the lawns showed better Bare
but there's such a "sameness"
to life,
Husbands can escape each
day to the office, store or fact-
tory, their only difficulty is
turning into the right driveway
at night—but the wife has to
stay there all day, many times
without transportation.
Many women in suburbia are
bored mainly because most of
then have a bettor education
than their mothers had—they
read more — they think more.
Many are educated beyond their
need as a housekeeper Modern
aids have deprived women of
making economic contributions
to the home, such as canning—
curing of meat—sewing, etc.
Labour-saving devices are won-
derful but whether she has re-
alized it or not, they've made
her discontented and restless—
they have smothered her desire
to be creative—to shine as the
one who could bake the best
bread or piece the most beau-
tiful quilt,
If she wants to go for a walk,
where does she go, two doors
down to a coffee club, where
she'll sit in a kitchen almost
the exact replica of her own.
Walking gets rid of tensions
better than anything we know,
but in the suburbs there is a
lack of places to walk—no tree -
lined streets with stores to peek
into, very few parks where you
can read or feed the squirrels
and pigeons—no libraries or
art galleries to while away an
hour!
I live in a suburb but there's
a difference. The houses are
not all the same, we are also
fortunate to have bought a
house next door to two older
older houses. We have a farm
fence on two sides of our back
garden with ma t u r e plum,
cherry and peach trees.
My work provides an interest
not only beyond our commun-
ity, our province, our country
but stretches to the United
States, Europe and the Middle
East. On the rare occasions
when I meet with my neigh-
bours, I find they envy me,
they think my life is exciting
and challenging, it is, but there
are times when I envy them —
especially on days when it's
stormy and cold, for while I
brave the weather to catch an
early morning bus, they're sit-
ting down for a second cup of
coffee. For five days a week
I'm a career woman, but for
two days I can become a house-
wife, and I make the most of
.it—I bake bread, make my
own pickles and jams, work in
the garden and at present I'm
making a quilt.
The Good Old Days
Then there's all the talk
these days about keeping your
girlish figure, and to some this
Is a real problem. Did it ever
:oce>u• to you that your grand-
mother and her friends •talked
:Jess about diets and still kept
:pretty trim under their bonnets
:and hustles. According to doe-
iors, women at the turn of the
Century actually could eat more
and stay thinner because they
did harder physical work.
Washboards, wringers and
brooms for instance were great
reducing agents. In the good
old days a woman past forty
could keep the same weight on
3,000 calories a day that her
grand -daughter just maintains
on 2,000 calories. Perhaps, she
was a lot happier, too, anyway
6he didn't •have time to worry
about herself, she put in a pret-
ty busy day.
!it went something like this:
(and by the way, don't give me
credit for the poetry, I ran
.across it a long time ago and
the author is unknown).
Grandmother, on a winter's day,
Milked the cows, and fed them
flay,
Slopped the hogs, saddled the
mule,
And got the children off .to
school,
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Did a washing, mopped the uable for the sheer heavenly
floors, reason of being female!
Washed the windows and did Extra time should be avail -
some chores, able for all women, what ever
Cooked a dish of home -dried walk in life, so don't try to at -
fruit, tend all the functions in your
Pressed her husband's Sunday community as a means of
escape, but do develop a hob-
by. Take time to find the femi-
ninity in your own charac-
ter and give it room togrow.
The extra time earned holds
great gifts. Try your hand
with oil paint s, listen to
good music— take time to visit
historical places and stroll un-
hurriedly through an art gal-
lery — e n j o y the rewards of
telling.
There are so many ways to
expose modern woman to a
greater understanding of her-
self and the world around her.
If she acquires such under-
' standing• she's bound to be bet-
ter able to fulfill the respon-
sibilities and enjoy the pleas-
ures of her womanhood —
and to heck with worrying
about being equal!
— 0
suit,
Swept the parlor, made the bed,
Baked a dozen loaves of bread,
Split some firewood and lugged
Enough to fill the kitchen bin;
Cleaned the lamps and put oil
in,
Stewed some apples she thought
would spoil.
Churned the butter, baked a
take,
Then exclaimed, "For Heaven's
sake,
The caves have gotten out of
the pen".
Went out and chased then in
again;
Gathered the eggs and locked
the stable,
Back to the house and set the
table;
Cooked a supper that was de-
licious,
And afterwards washed up the
dishes;
Fed the cat and sprinkled the
clothes,
Mended a basketful of old hose;
Then opened the organ and be-
gan to play,
"When You Come to the End
of a Perfect Day".
Well, in spite of all the op-
portunities for women to find
fulfillment, many of then still
find their lives unfulfilling.
What is missing? Some claim
it's that frippery called FEMI-
NINITY, the sense of being val-
Pork Makes
Ideal Meals
Pork sausages are made from
a mixture of pork and pork
fat in most cases. Some con-
tain pork, beef and fat, plus
cereal, spices, salt and water.
They are sold fresh, smoked
and cured.
All pork must be cooked un-
til it is well done, and shows
no sign of pink color.
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From My Window
By Shirley Keller
Fantasy, I believe has a place
in life. Whether it comes to a
child in the form of a beauti-
ful fairy tale, to an adolescent
as a dream of success and ro-
mance, to a parent as wishful
thinking for the u l t i m a t e
achievement of his offspring or
to the aged as a kind of new
hope for youth and ambition,
fantasy (believeable make- be-
lieve) will boost us over many
hurdles of living that at first
seemed unsurmountable.
Take for instance the com-
mon television fantasy about
the average father. According
to the script of most TV dramas
about families, mothers need be
little more than lovely, desir-
able creatures who float about
the hourse arranging flowers
and fluffing pillows. It is fa-
ther (on television) who scur-
ries about solving the hundred
and one household dilemmas
faced daily by the family.
And have you ever noticed
how masterful TV fathers are?
Infallible is the only word to
describe these screen daddies.
No problem is beyond their un-
derstanding. No situation is
too difficult. Nothing ever
confounds them nor does the
need ever arise for them to
seek the advice of their spouse.
In fact, some video papas
are so self-sufficient there is no
need for a wife or a mother in
the picture. In these extreme
cases one actually wonders if
a woman ever figured in the
story at all even though there
are little boys scampering in
every direction through the
spotless, orderly rooms of this
all-male kingdom.
For wives and mothers of
true-to-life husbands and fa-
thers, the most amazing feature
of the television home -hovering
hero is his uncanny ability to
talk and reason with his young-
sters. He always knows ex-
actly what to say to persuade
his teenage son not to become
a high school drop-out or carry
a switch blade. The highjinks
of his 15 -year-old daughter are
halted and smoothed away by
one simple, inspired explana-
tion of why nice girls don't do
that sort of thing.
Fantasy fathers of the air
waves, impossible though they
may be, give hope to worried,
wearied mothers who are in re-
ality the child trainers and
complaint listeners of the mod-
ern hone..
With each episode featuring
these male mothers, a woman
gains renewed .faith that one
day when she says, "Go, ask
your father", the child will not
return from whence he came
with the brilliant reply, "Dad
says it is up to you".
She draws strength from
these mother -is -a -man series,
They offer balm and comfort
to soothe away that dull and
listless feeling that usually ac-
companies the knowledge that
she, a mere woman of the weak -
v
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for the care, feeding and dis-
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